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From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:08:01 -0500
At 12:22 PM -0500 3/6/97, malgosia askanas wrote:
>Doug, I have, over my long inhabitance of the Internet, learned to refrain
>from discussions in which my interlocutor puts me in a position where
>everything I say will just furnish further proof of supposed
>undergraduateness,
>immaturity, brainwashedness, going with fashion, and so on. This is a trap
>out of which there is no way. When I was younger, I didn't see it like that.
>Ah, youth! Where has it gone?
Come now, Malgosia. That's no answer. You're focusing on one sentence of
what I said. I'd like to hear someone offer some way of distinguishing
among transgressive practices - why infant sacrifice, for example, is not
an approved kind of transgression.
Obviously, my suspicion is that people who claim to be free of humanist
prejudices and master narratives aren't. But I want to hear why it's ok to
cross some borders but not others.
Doug